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DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC

POLICY ON FACULTY TEACHING LOAD

Approved May 7, 1997

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I. GENERAL PHILOSOPHY

A. The Department of Music Faculty Workload Policies are developed within the “University of Dayton Faculty Workload Guidelines” (effective 1995) and the “Final Report from the College of Arts and Sciences Advisement Committee” (effective 1996). (Note: Much of this material has been taken directly from these documents.) Any revisions to this document must be approved by the full-time faculty of the Department of Music and the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences.

B. Four Critical Principles (taken from the “UD Faculty Workload Guidelines”):

1. Excellence in teaching must be an expectation and a goal for every faculty member. Scholarly and caring teaching and advising are primary activities.

2. Every faculty member is expected to engage in creative/ scholarly activity/ research and to provide service to the University and the scholarly community/ profession.

3. As a community we should search for ways of relating our teaching, creative/ scholarly activity/research and service so that each can inform the other.

4. Each faculty member should regularly review his/her workload and reflect upon it with the Department Chairperson to seek understanding and deeper meaning in his/her work.

II. RATIONALE

A. The above principles are important in decisions on retention, tenure, promotion, and merit increases.

B. Policies on Faculty Workload serve the following purposes:

1. Serve as a benchmark for general equality among the various faculty positions in the Department.

2. Guide the faculty in the use of their time.

3. Assist the Chairperson in interpreting music teaching loads to the Dean and Provost since some music courses and rehearsals are weighted differently from the usual lecture course.

4. Assist the Chairperson in determining teaching load for a faculty member.

5. Assist the Department in justifying its requests for faculty positions (new and

replacement).

6. Assume flexibility from semester to semester, year to year, as outlined in Section III.

7. Provide information on teaching load assignments to the Faculty Affairs Committee of the Department.

8. Comply with the teaching load policies of the National Association of Schools of Music, the Department's accrediting agency.

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III. GUIDELINES FOR MUSIC FACULTY TEACHING LOADS

A. A faculty workload policy recognizes the importance of achieving quality in the four areas for faculty evaluation: teaching, advisement, creative/scholarly activity/ research, and service. The Department encourages balance among the four areas with emphasis on teaching and advisement. (See Department's Policies and Procedures for Promotion and Tenure). Specific guidelines for teaching/instruction are outlined in Section IV.

B. Maximum and Minimum Teaching Loads:

1. Normally, a teaching load of twelve semester hours per semester, with no more than six separate course preparations during the academic year represents the maximum for any faculty member to satisfactorily perform the faculty member's teaching function. A faculty member who is teaching twelve semester hours per semester can be expected to spend at least an additional twenty-four clock hours in teaching-related activities, including keeping up with his/her discipline. He/she should not be expected to produce meaningful research. It is unlikely that a faculty member teaching twelve semester hours will be able to regularly engage in sufficient research and service activities to fulfill his/her responsibilities as a teacher/scholar, and therefore, this maximum is not recommended and it should not be used as a general rule.

2. Normally, faculty members who engage in meaningful creative/scholarly activity/ research (e.g., that which leads to some form of peer review and dissemination) should not teach more than nine semester hours in a any semester.

3. Normally, faculty who produce significant peer reviewed research, engage in major curricular revision, or lead administrative units should be expected to teach no more than six semester hours in any semester.

4. Except in extraordinary circumstances, or when a faculty member is serving as a major administrator, no faculty member should teach fewer than three semester hours in any semester.

C. Preferable Teaching/Advisement Load:

1. For undergraduate and masters level instruction, a teaching load of nine hours per week with a maximum of five, three credit course preparations per year.

2. A teaching workload like this should enable the average faculty member to fulfill responsibilities in advising, curriculum development, creative/scholarly activity/research, service and other activities. It must be recognized that achievement of a nine or six semester hour teaching load may not be possible at present for every faculty member in

every unit.

3. Care must be exercised to assure that full-time teaching faculty have posted

office hours when they are available regularly to their students.

4. In addition to the assigned teaching load, good academic advising is an essential component of the work of the faculty. The advisement distribution plan considers that a

typical full-time faculty member in the College has the responsibility for about 20 advisees.

D. Special Considerations:

1. Contact hours, not credit hours, are the basis for determining equitable faculty

teaching loads in the Department, especially with ensembles, labs and studio courses.

2. The number of different course preparations within a semester and within the academic year should be considered, not only the total class hours per week.

3. The Department of Music has no graduate teaching assistantships and limited

secretarial resources to assist faculty with typing and other academic matters.

4. A “full” teaching load for the academic year, as opposed to each semester, should be

the major consideration, in order to allow flexibility in creative/scholarly activity/ research, and service.

5. Preparation time and implementation will vary from course to course depending on a number of variables, such as individual instruction.

6. Special adjustments may be appropriate for the faculty member introducing a new course or substantially revising an older course. This provision can be used to assist faculty members who are new to the University and who often need additional time to develop their teaching. Similarly, when major curriculum revisions are developed and implemented, special adjustments may need to be made.

7. The size of the classes taught should be considered. The larger class is not always more demanding than the smaller class; but it does not follow that the question of class size can safely be ignored.

8. Other major responsibilities related to academic administration, such as student

advisement, student recruitment, student degree-programs/activities, may also be

considered in evaluation of the faculty member’s workload.

9. The University expects all faculty to engage in some form of creative/scholarly activity/research; this is essential to good teaching which relies on the advancement of knowledge and to stimulate critical thinking.

10. Faculty members should expect to serve as advisors and mentors to majors and to new faculty colleagues, to serve on Departmental or College committees, in certain administrative capacities, and in professional societies and associations.

11. Individual faculty members often have quite different duties, some of which may be highly specialized, and the relative weight of these duties may vary dramatically during the year. It is important, therefore, that individual workloads be determined in consultation between the Department faculty member and the Department Chairperson who is most familiar with the demands involved. The Department Chairperson must be allowed a measure of latitude in making individual assignments, and care should be taken that all of the individual's service to the University is considered.

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IV. FACTORS IN DETERMINING MUSIC TEACHING LOAD

A. Normal Expectations.

Every full-time music faculty member must meet the following normal expectations related to teaching, scholarship/creative activity/research, and service, over and above teaching the courses to which the faculty member is assigned.

1. Teaching

a. To post and maintain office hours in order to be regularly available to students.

b. To serve as a member of Recital Review Boards (an assessment activity required of

any student performing a public recital).

c. To serve as a member of Second Year Review Boards (an assessment activity required of

every music major).

d. To support music students through regular attendance at Friday-at-One Recitals and at

junior/senior recitals, and ensemble concerts.

e. To perform certain administrative duties that may be related to some courses, such as

ensemble recruiting and promotion; coordination of and assigning students to part-time teachers in certain performance areas (i.e., voice, keyboard, and jazz).

f. To keep up with his/her discipline.

g. Performance faculty: to serve on Jury Exams in the appropriate performance area; to give studio classes (periodic classes involving one’s private students).

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2. Creative and Scholarly Activity

In order to receive the full one-course (3 credit hours) reduction in load, each faculty member must earn 5 units as defined below. Creative/scholarly activity is defined as work done beyond normal teaching duties. The table indicates how this might be calculated. Any activity above 5 units would be considered in the annual merit process; any activity below 5 units can be used as partial load reduction (4 units = 2 cr/term, 3 units = 1 cr/term). These items are intended to serve as simple guidelines; questions and weighting of specific activities not included below should be worked out with the department chair.

	3 units	2 units	1 units
A. Performance/ Conducting	One full, newly prepared concert	One full, newly prepared chamber concert, or regular featured appearances in other concerts	Regular participation in a professional performing ensemble, or regular accompanying
B. Composition/ Arrangement	New compositional activity resulting in an extended work	New compositional activity for small ensembles or solo	Regular new compositional or arranging work, small genres
C. Publication/ Research	Publication or major documented research for a book or article in refereed journal	Publication of an extended article in a non-refereed journal, or composition	Regular publication of brief Articles
D. Professional/ Administrative	Major presentation at the national/regional level, or organization of multi- day conference or tour	Presentation at the state level, or organization of one day conference or tour; grant writing at the national level	Regular guest appearances in classes, public forums, or clinics; grant writing at the local level
E. Technology application	Major contributions to university or profession in technological areas	Regular contributions of technology to department	Regular participation in technology workshops, or continued application Of technology

3. Service

a. To attend all departmental faculty meetings (generally on a monthly basis).

b. To serve on standard and ad hoc music faculty committees.

c. To perform certain music administrative duties not related to a specific course.

d. To support efforts in recruiting prospective music students by attending all

scheduled special Audition Days and other auditions scheduled in the appropriate area;

by calling and responding to prospective students.

e. To support faculty and administrators by attending University faculty meetings,

College faculty meetings, and faculty recitals.

4. Advisement.

a. To assume the equivalent of one advisement unit.

b. To serve as a mentor to students.

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B. Formula/Unit Credit Applied to Music Courses

The National Association of Schools of Music regards the relationship of one contact hour of

individual performance instruction to the standard lecture class hour as a 3:2 ratio. For convenient

calculation and in recognition that the University gives one full hour credit to a 50-minute class (in

actuality 5/6ths or .83 hour), the Department of Music counts one hour of private instruction as .75 of

a lecture class hour.

1. Classroom Instruction

a. Lecture classes Contact hrs x 1.00

b. Laboratory classes Contact hrs x 1.00

2. Performance Instruction

a. Private Lessons Contact hrs x 0.75

b. Class (group) lessons Contact hrs x 1.00

3. Ensemble direction

a. Ensembles: 0.5 credit Contact hrs x 0.75

b. Ensembles: 1.0 credit Contact hrs x 1.00

4. Student supervision

a. Student teaching # of students x 0.50

b. Music Therapy Practicum # of students x 0.50